Those of you who follow such things know that it is International Open Access Week! This is the week where publishers, authors, and readers celebrate open access publishing and publication. While at NDQ we recognize that Open Access publishing isn’t necessarily suitable for every situation and circumstance, we are also happy to have contributed to Open Access publishing in a number of ways.

First, if you haven’t already, do check out the NDQ archive. All issues published between 1928 and 2007 are available under Open Access licenses.

We’ve also had the privilege of publishing a few works ourselves under Open Access licenses. We’ve published contemporary Mayan poets translated by Paul Worley in Snichimal Vayuchil (you can download it here for free). We published Jurij Koch’s novel, The Cherry Tree, translated from the German by John Cox (you can download it here for free). Another translated and Open Access book is on the way!

We’ve also published a couple little collections. First, a group of public domain articles in a volume called The University of North Dakota and the Great War. These are technically in the public domain rather than Open Access, but close enough. 

Last year, we published a digital anthology of the first 90 volumes of NDQ curated by a spectacular group of student editors. It is not only brilliantly arranged, but also a very fun, Open Access way, to get to know NDQ. You can get it here.